re: Ruffin Rodrigue on instate recruiting

some of you guys are naive, if you don't think this happens you are living in make believe world

Generally, if you play for your instate school, you have the name recognition and the fact that you stayed instate that will help you after you are out of school. At some point, you still have to produce at the job or you are not going to be there very long.
There are some rather prominent exceptions that I know personally that went out of state and are now back. One is doing very well and the other, I'm not so sure. Both are back in the towns where they grew up.
If I was a recruiter, my pitch to the prospect would be simply that if they go out of state and do well, you will be a hero...if you stay instate, you will be a legend.
Cases in point...John David Crow...Billy Cannon
Everybody knows who Billy Cannon is...tell someone about John David Crow and the first response is usually "he's from Louisiana?"

I didn't read all the posts in this thread, but for people like TN Bhoy who think this is ridiculous, here is my counterpoint.

People like Warrick Dunn and Matt Mauck are extreme outliers among college football athletes. The vast majority of college football players who are recruited have no place in a university, and the data bears this out. Back in Urban's best years at Florida, the average SAT (two part) on the team was below an 800. I would be shocked if it is above a 900 on LSU. These are abysmal, abysmal scores, and it's obvious that the vast majority of guys can't do any legitimate schoolwork at the university. That is one of the main reasons why they are all taking bullshite majors where tutors do their work. Having essentially a 40 hour a week job playing football certainly doesn't make it any easier.

Therefore, we see that the vast majority of scholarship players at schools outside of Stanford, Duke, Rice, Northwestern, etc can't really be hired for the types of jobs college graduates generally want and apply for. The only way they can be hired (outside of exceptions like Mauck and Dunn, if he chooses to work) is by hoping that their name recognition helps them out in a sales job or by hoping that a benevolent booster will help them out after their playing days. Benevolent boosters are generally more likely to help out local guys they've followed in high school, although that's not always the case.

TL;DR: Almost none of these guys are qualified for good jobs in the first place. So it isn't as if players are being discriminated against for not playing at LSU. Instead, people aren't bending over backwards to hire them when they are underqualified in the first place and chose to go elsewhere for football. Those guys have to hope benevolent boosters will look out for them in College Station, Gainesville, Tuscaloosa, etc.

Half of these guys will never hold a real job anywhere. Most are one injury away from working for Ruffin at Ruffinos

This is operating under the assumption that boosters will treat local guys and out-of-state guys equally.

Considering how provincial many college boosters are, I don't think it's a fair assumption.

I think his point is more to the guys who don't find success at the next level. They tend to come back home where their family is and he is saying if they do come back, no one will be racing over with a job offer to help them out. And I for one see nothing wrong with that.

Another point to consider is how in state recruits family members are treated. Case in point, a former tigers uncles comes by my office every other week to wash cars. Does an OK job but nothing spectacular. But he gets a ton of business with us and I'm sure other offices in town because we can shoot the shite with him about his nephew, have gotten a few items autographed and in general feel like we are helping a former tiger out by doing business with his family member. Now if his nephew hadn't gone to LSU myself and my coworkers would detail our own cars.

LOL@ thinking GWIII cares about getting a Degree.

Rondell Mealy has a nice job as a Safety Man at The Marathon Refinery. His name greatly helped him get the job. If he had gone out of State, he wouldn't have that job.

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Any reason as to why they did this? what has Franks reaction been?